Electron-hadron shower discrimination in a liquid argon time projection chamber

/ Authors

J. Back, G. J. Barker, A. J. Bennieston, S. Boyd, B. Morgan, Y. Ramachers

/ Abstract

By exploiting structural differences between electromagnetic and hadronic showers in a multivariate analysis we present an efficient Electron-Hadron discrimination algorithm for liquid argon time projection chambers, validated using Geant4 simulated data.

Journal: The European Physical Journal C

DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-013-2369-y